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SUMMARY:Migration and Entrepreneurship International Conference
UID:www.birmingham.ac.uk/115112
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this genuinely exclusive opportunity to discuss the latest thinking and research in the field of migrant entrepreneurs, with many of the international leaders in the field in a small seminar group. \n
 Please note, due to the capacity of the room and the aim of making this event a discussion forum this event is strictly by personal invitation only.\n
Key speakers

Professor Alejandro Portes (Princeton)\n 
Professor Patricia Fernandez-Kelly (Princeton)\n 
Professor Ivan Light (UCLA)\n 
Professor Frederick Wherry (Yale)\n 
Professor Benson Honig (McMaster)\n 

Programme
 9:00 – 9:30  Registration and refreshments\n
 9:30 – 10:30  Welcome and opening remark: Migrant Businesses - Reflections from the Centre for Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship Professor Monder Ram, University Â鶹ľ«Ńˇ\n
 10:30 – 11:30  Keynote: Form and content of transnational entrepreneurship Professor Ivan Light, University of California, Los Angeles\n
 11:30 - 12:00  Coffee break\n
 12:00 - 13:00  “Migration and Entrepreneurship Revisited” Professor Benson Honig, McMaster University\n
 13:00 - 13:45  Lunch and informal networking\n
 13:45 - 14:45  “Relational Accounting, Social Capital, and the Financing of Immigrant Businesses” Professor Frederick Wherry, Yale University\n
 14:45 - 15:45  Keynote: Transnationalism and National Development: Taking Stock of the Evidence Professor Alejandro Portes, Princeton University and University of Miami\n
 Book Launch Event “The State and the Grassroots - Immigrant Transnational Organizations in Four Continents, edited by Alejandro Portes and Patricia Fernández-Kelly\n
 16:00 - 16:15  Welcome Professor Monder Ram, University Â鶹ľ«Ńˇ\n
 16:15 – 17:30  Discussants: \n Professor Leo Paul Dana (Montpellier School of Business)\n Professor Thomas Cooney (Dublin Institute of Technology)\n Professor Paul Edwards (University Â鶹ľ«Ńˇ)\n
 Comment and reply: \n Professor Patricia Fernández-Kelly (Princeton University)\n Professor Alejandro Portes (Princeton University & Miami University)\n Chair: Assoc. Professor Shahamak Rezaei (Roskilde University)\n
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LOCATION:Horton Grange, Worcester Room
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:OPAQUE
CLASS:PUBLIC
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